CSE6044 Mobile System Security

Department of Computer Science & Engineering

Spring 2017

Course Description

This course is a seminar-based class offering an in-depth study of network attack techniques and methods to defend against them. Topics include firewalls and virtual private networks; network intrusion detection; denial of service (DoS) and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks; DoS and DDoS detection and reaction; worm and virus propagation; tracing the source of attacks; traffic analysis; techniques for hiding the source or destination of network traffic; secure routing protocols; protocol scrubbing; and advanced techniques for reacting to network attacks.

 

Class Time/Location: Thursday 1PM – 4PM, Rm#406

Course website: cnlab.hanyang.ac.kr/~cse6044

 

Faculty Information

Instructor: Suk-Bok Lee

Office Location: Rm#401, Engineering Bldg 3

Office Hours: Wednesday 1:00-3:00 PM (or by appointment)

Telephone: 031-400-5666

Email: sble@hanyang.ac.kr

 

 

Recommended Course Materials

(Optional) textbooks

Cryptography and network security: principles and practice. William Stallings. 6th edition. Prentice Hall, 2013. ISBN: 978-0133354690

 

 

Grading

Your final course grade will be based upon class presentation, term project, and class participation.

Class presentation: 40%

Term project: 35%

Paper summary: 15%

Class participation: 10%

 

Class Presentation

Each student will have multiple class presentations about assigned papers or a certain book chapter.

 


Course Schedule

This is an overview of the plan of study for this semester.

 

Week / Date

Topics & Reading materials

Project

W1. 03/02

Course logistic

Presentation schedule

 

 

W2. 03/09

Mobile location privacy

Hiding Stars with Fireworks: Location Privacy through Camouflage, MOBICOM 2009 –김기연

Cache: Caching Location-Enhanced Content to Improve User Privacy, MOBISYS 2011 – 임재민

 

-

W3. 03/16

Visual privacy I

P3: Toward Privacy-Preserving Photo Sharing, NSDI 2013 – 김민호

Face/Off: Preventing Privacy Leakage From Photos in Social Networks, CCS 2015 – 유현우

 

 

W4. 03/23

Visual privacy II

I-Pic: A Platform for Privacy-Compliant Image Capture, MOBISYS 2016 – 유현우

ViewMap: Sharing In-Vehicle Dashcam Videos, NSDI 2017

이석복

 

W5. 03/30

No class

 

W6. 04/06

Mobile network security

Mosaic: Quantifying Privacy Leakage in Mobile Networks, SIGCOMM 2013김기연

Term project presentation (5-10 min per team)

Project problem/Background/Why is it important?

Project topic due

(1-page description for your problem)

W7. 04/13

Tracking protection

Privad: Practical Privacy in Online Advertising, NSDI 2011 – 김민호

Detecting and Defending against Third-Party Tracking on the Web, NSDI 2012 – 임재민

 

 

W8. 04/20

Advertisement Privacy

Privacy-aware Personalization for Mobile Advertising, CCS 2012 – 최준태

AdScale: Scalable Private Advertising with Practical Trusted Third Parties, CCS 2016 – Karim

 

 

W9. 04/27

Undetectable wireless communications

Deniable Liaisons, CCS 2012 – 노재원

PHY Covert Channels: Can You See the Idles? , NSDI 2014 – 정해건

 

 

W10. 05/04

 

 

W11. 05/11

Cellular data pricing

Mobile data charging: new attacks and countermeasures, CCS 2012 – 최준태

Real Threats to Your Data Bills: Security Loopholes and Defense in Mobile Data Charging, CCS 2014 – 김민호

 

 

W12. 05/18

Cellular network security

New Privacy Issues in Mobile Telephony: Fix and Verification, CCS 2012 – 노재원

New Security Threats Caused by IMS-based SMS Service in 4G LTE Networks, CCS 2016 – 임재민

 

 

W13. 05/25

Mobile phones

Android Permission Demystified, CCS 2011 – Zinou

AppIntent: Analyzing Sensitive Data Transmission in Android for Privacy Leakage Detection, CCS 2013 – 정해건

 

 

W14. 06/01

Web security

Expressive Privacy Control with Pseudonyms, SIGCOMM 2013 – 유현우

Multi-Context TLS (mcTLS): Enabling Secure In-Network Functionality in TLS, SIGCOMM 2015 – Zinou

 

 

W15. 06/08

Censorship circumvention

CensorSpoofer: Asymmetric Communication using IP spoofing for censorship-resistant web browsing, CCS 2012 – Karim

VPN Gate: A Volunteer-Organized Public VPN Relay System with Blocking Resistance for Bypassing Government Censorship Firewalls, NSDI 2014 - 정해건

 

 

W16. 06/15

Project final presentation

Project paper